http://www.ghumakkar.com Kashmir, Agra, Jaipur, Rajasthan, Goa, Kerala - Lets travel and share our travel blogs, stories and reviews. Fri, 10 Sep 2010 09:50:40 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://www.ghumakkar.com/2008/11/17/walking-to-valley-of-flowers/ http://www.ghumakkar.com/2008/11/17/walking-to-valley-of-flowers/#comments Mon, 17 Nov 2008 06:19:34 +0000 kumkum http://www.ghumakkar.com/?p=1792
The bus from Dehra Dun to Joshimath was on time. As it made its way through the capital of Uttarakhand, I caught a glimpse of a city fast losing its original character. I remembered reading an article that mourned the death of ‘old’ Dun, a city of retired army officials, educationists and authors. The climb [...]]]> http://www.ghumakkar.com/2008/11/17/walking-to-valley-of-flowers/feed/ 35 http://www.ghumakkar.com/2008/05/07/down-the-forest-path-three-days-in-panna/ http://www.ghumakkar.com/2008/05/07/down-the-forest-path-three-days-in-panna/#comments Wed, 07 May 2008 17:49:31 +0000 kumkum http://www.ghumakkar.com/2008/05/07/down-the-forest-path-three-days-in-panna/
My trip to Madhya Pradesh’s Panna Tiger Reserve began on a bad note. I nearly missed the train (Taj Express from Delhi’s Hazrat Nizamuddin station); the compartment was stinking and the food awful. The resident rats of the train had worked on the carpets diligently (the designs were a little abstract though) and the seat [...]]]> http://www.ghumakkar.com/2008/05/07/down-the-forest-path-three-days-in-panna/feed/ 22 http://www.ghumakkar.com/2008/02/18/gangtok-in-the-winter-of-2006-2007/ http://www.ghumakkar.com/2008/02/18/gangtok-in-the-winter-of-2006-2007/#comments Mon, 18 Feb 2008 15:05:00 +0000 kumkum http://ghumakkar.com/?p=12
Pages from the Gangtok trip diary We boarded the Darjeeling Mail from Sealdah at 10.30 pm. As the train began its journey to the foothills, we pored over whatever information we had about Gangtok and chalked out a plan for the next three days. Day 1 We reached Siliguri next day around 9.30 am. Fresh [...]]]> http://www.ghumakkar.com/2008/02/18/gangtok-in-the-winter-of-2006-2007/feed/ 8